Portrait of Estera Bielinski with her daughter Françoise while living in Pau, France.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 38303

Date: Circa 1942
Locale: Pau, [Pyrenees-Atlantiques] France
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- France -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families/The Jewish Quarter
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Francoise Bielinski Sitzer

Biography: Françoise Bielinski (now Sitzer) is the daughter of Abraham and Estera (Markowicz) Bielinski, a Polish Jewish couple who moved to Berlin and then to Paris in the interwar period. Françoise was born in Paris in August 1937. She had one brother, Reinhold, who was born in Berlin in April 1932. After the German occupation of Paris in May 1940, the Sitzers fled to Pau, where they lived for two years before escaping over the Pyrenees into Spain. In 1942 the family secured passage on a ship sailing to Venezuela from the port of Cadiz.
Keyword: FAMILIES (WARTIME JEWISH)
JEWS (FRENCH)
JEWS (POLISH)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Francoise Bielinski Sitzer
: Record last modified: 2000-12-14 00:00:00
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